And it Begins!

~Highlight of the Day: sleeping in, under both my sheet and blanket, with my favorite pj's on! ~

I have only 27 days left in Pennsylvania. . . which means I have a lot of food in my cupboards that needs to be eaten. So here's to creative cooking for the next month!

I began on the right foot I think - I made buckwheat buttermilk pancakes for lunch.

I like using spices. They just look so awesome in all their rich-brownness,
like a lovely color scheme for a painting of a nice warm barn
with horses in it or an old tree in the rain.

I've been meaning to use this buckwheat for more than half a year now. . . I got it at the WinCo in Orem, in kernel form. It took me at least a semester to get around to grinding it, and then the school year ended and I packed it up and took it home to Washington with me. It spent three weeks in the hallway in my unpacked 'kitchen' box, and then made the cut (along with some choice spices and oatmeal packets) for being carted to Pennsylvania with me.

I honestly can't remember if I brought it with me in my luggage or if Mom mailed it in a box of things I forgot. . . but some how it got here, and was promptly put on the top shelf of my allotment of cupboard space (the one I can barely reach, even when I'm on a chair).

And now, finally, after months and months and months of delicious-breakfast-potential, it's become a meal! Now I just have to do the same with what ever else I have managed to acquire and not ever use. . .